A submitted job fails to start, and returns the following error message, where nodename is the name of the node on which the job failed to start:

Failed to start on node <nodename>. Error: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer. Exception of type Microsoft.Hpc.Activation.NodeManagerException was thrown.

The following screenshot shows the error message as it appears in the Job View dialog box in HPC Job Manager:

When the HPC Job Scheduler Service starts a job on a node, it attempts to log the job owner on to the node. If the job owner does not have local logon permissions on the node, the job fails to start and displays the logon failure error message and the exception of type Microsoft.Hpc.Activation.NodeManagerException.

Job owners must have local logon permissions on compute nodes in order to run jobs. For more information about local logon, see
Log on locally (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147886).

You can use one of the following methods to give a user local logon permission:

Add the job owner to a group that has local logon permissions on the compute nodes.

Add the job owner, or a group to which that user belongs, to the list of users and groups with local logon permissions on your compute nodes.

If local log on permissions are restricted by your Active Directory domain policy, ask your domain administrator for an exception to the policy for your cluster nodes. For more information about managing Group Policy, see
Group Policy Management (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=147887).